Anna King (artist)

Anna King
Born Anna King
1984 (age 30–31)
Shetland
Nationality Scottish
Education Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
Known for Painting
Movement landscape art
Awards Jolomo Award
Blinkbonnie Quarry - one of Anna King's first prize pictures for the Jolomo Award 2007
Catterline, Anna King

Anna King, is a Scottish landscape artist "who seeks out forgotten spaces and derelict buildings." [1]

She was born in Shetland in 1984, spent most of her life in the Scottish Borders, and lives in the village of Greenlaw, near Kelso.

She first came to attention of the general public at her degree show at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2005. As a young artist, this, her first exhibition, was a sell out, a pattern that was followed in several of her future exhibitions.

Awards

She won the top prize of £20,000 in the annual Jolomo Award in 2007 - the inaugural year for the prize. This the largest prize award in Scotland, established by John Lowrie Morrison and awarded to Scottish Landscape Artists.

She also received the Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award from the RSA Student Exhibition and also received the Ian Eadie Award from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

Exhibitions

She has had solo exhibitions at:

She has also exhibited at many other art galleries including the Glasgow Art Fair and the Gallery Heinzel.[5]

Residencies

She has been twice artist in residence at the Watchie studio in Catterline. Also artist in residence at Traon Nevez, Brittany.[6]

TV

She featured on the BBC Coast Series,[7] when Alice Roberts visited her during one of her residencies at the Watchie and explored what drew Joan Eardley to Catterline. Also she is the featured artist in a recent Blackberry Ad [8] which shows William Ramsay, founder of the Affordable Art Fair,[9] visiting the artist and then using his BlackBerry Torch to share her paintings with his colleagues.

Green container, Anna King

Art

She normally works in oil and pencil, on paper and board.

Disused Cinema, Bradford, Anna King

"I love to explore empty, feral places: wastelands, abandoned buildings and barren pieces of scrub-land.

"I find myself in a no-mans land. Unclaimed territory, that, for a while anyway, I can have as my own. It’s an adventure playground that nobody meant to build, a desolate, wild expanse of cracking concrete and decaying structures. Once a hive of human activity, these forgotten places have no purpose left – but no rules either – and nature is slowly and relentlessly taking the land back."

Anna King, Artist's Statement (see her website [10]).

"This gifted young artist has spent the past two winters working at Joan Eardley's clifftop studio at Catterline. The results are very different from Eardley's wild, densely painted seascapes: cooler, more cerebral, with an almost icy range of colours. Yet something of Eardley's response to nature as an untameable force is echoed in King's bleakly attractive images of post-industrial landscapes: empty feral places where nature is slowly reclaiming the land."

FINANCIAL TIMES REVIEW 12 April 2008, by Jackie Wullschlager, chief art critic of the Financial Times.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Glasgow Art Fair
  2. ↑ Anna King's paintings at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh
  3. ↑ Beaux Arts Bath Summer Exhibition 2010
  4. ↑ Anna King at 108 Fineart
  5. ↑ Anna King's Second Exhibition at the Heinzel Gallery, Aberdeen
  6. ↑ King apprivoise Traon Nevez - article in Le Télégramme about her residency in Brittany
  7. ↑ BBC Coast Series 5 Episode 6 Glasgow to Edinburgh via the Caledonian Canal
  8. ↑ Blackberry Ad.
  9. ↑ Affordable Art Fair
  10. ↑ Anna King Official Web Site
  11. ↑ Anna King, Wastelands 108 Fine Art, Harrogate The Jackie Wullschlager mini review (scroll down the page to find) - requires free registration to view the FT articles.

External links

Online galleries

These are on-line galleries of some of her recent exhibitions.

Also there is a selection of paintings on her official website.